| Malamud's Cantata for Middle Age | 3 |
| KAPP, ISA | |
| Paradox Lost | 6 |
| SIMON, JOHN | |
| A Movement Comes to Maturity | 8 |
| RUSTIN, BAYARD | |
| Reclaiming Black Culture | 9 |
| RAVITCH, DIANE | |
| Half-Speed Ahead | 10 |
| LEKACHMAN, ROBERT | |
| Mrs. Thatcher and the CIA | 12 |
| ALAN, RAY | |
| Voices from the Atom | 14 |
| PETTINGELL, PHOEBE | |
| Five New Poems | 16 |
| HINE, DARYL & MOSS, HOWARD & HECHT, ANTHONY & CORN, ALFRED & VIERECK, PETER | |
| The Bard Business | 19 |
| BEVINGTON, DAVID | |
| Updike in Africa | 21 |
| MERKIN, DAPHNE | |
| A Whopper of a Tale | 23 |
| HOWARD, RICHARD | |
| Examining Malpractice | 24 |
| VLADECK, BRUCE C. | |
| Ahead of His Times | 26 |
| WADE, RICHARD C. |
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